Reed and rushes dress

Summary: Rin, a princess is forced to run away from home, to escape from her insane father's advances. What happens if she takes up abode in the ice prince's castle[RinSess, InuKag (AU and OOC)

Chapter 1: Proposal

"Neh, mister are you alright?" a ten year old princess with a single ponytail tied to the side of her head asked the badly injured twenty year old looking man who was propped under the willow tree in the palace garden.

He glared at her, with red tinted eyes and snarled at her angrily to get lost. She quickly backed away and left, much to his relief, when she suddenly returned and poured water from a drinking container all over him and shocking him on the spot. She then set a basketful of food and a water container on his right side within reachable distance for him.

"Here are some food and drink for you, I have to go now. I will be back tomorrow." She replied softly, before disappearing, just like she did, leaving him sitting there with a mixed look of surprise and disgust of a 'filthy and weak' human saving his life. But somehow he looked forward of seeing her again much to his chagrin. The little princess came and visited him to wash his wounds and place fresh water and food beside him, and left him alone with him wanting more for her company like one love sick puppy, causing him to be pole axed by that desire. If he wasn't badly injured, he would have bashed his head on the boulder that he was propped on, very hard. (Winter-chan: Sesshy got a puppy crush). Sometimes she would sit down besides him and talk about how her days at the palace and her father who shunned her with Sesshoumaru quietly lying next to her without giving a single input at all. But slowly and steadily it began a regular routine …

"Sesshoumaru sama, please?"

"No."

"Sesshoumaru sama, pretty please?" The princess pleaded at him very huge watering eyes at him; he wavered under her gaze before using his single hand to pinch his nose in frustration.

'Damn the creator who created the puppy eye look.'

"Yes, Rin you may." Rin beamed her sunny smile at him as she proceeded to plait his white long silky hair, causing him to sigh to the sky.

'Three more weeks to go, then I can leave this place.' Sesshomaru mentally chanted wearily, as he subconsciously relished the administrations performed by her dainty hands. Yup they subconsciously fell in love without them knowing.

Three weeks later …

"Neh, Sesshomaru sama, do you think kami sama will grant my wish?" she asked him, sitting at a corner watching him.

"Why do you ask Rin?" Sesshomaru asked with a nonchalant look on his face as he watched the clouds floating by.

"Well, I made a wish." She replied blushing at the same time. He raised his eyebrow in surprise; he waited for her to continue.

"I wished that Father will notice me, he didn't even pay attention to me ever since mama died." She informed him; Sesshomaru just stared at her blankly.

'Che, why would I care, I will be leaving anyway.' He thought to himself as he continued to stare blankly at her, and feeling a bit puzzled at this strange feeling when he heard her wish.

'But then there is also another wish, I wish that I will be with Sesshomaru sama.' She thought quietly as she leaned beside him, both of them savoring each others' warmth and presence.

Five years later …

"I wonder how is Sesshomaru sama doing now?" a fifteen year old Rin wondered as she sat right in front of the dressing parlor with her attendant combing her long silky black hair, babbling to her endlessly about the latest happenings around the palace, recalling about the event in the palace garden five years back.

"Rin sama, his majesty requests your presence in the throne room." An elderly attendant informed her. Rin briefly nodded in reply to her as she got up from her sitting position, .

'Father has finally noticed me; I wonder what I am going to say to him.' Rin thought as she hurried towards the throne room where her father was waiting.

"Ah, Rin, it's a long time since I last saw you as a child." King Yukio greeted her as he looked away from a portrait, smiling at her. Rin just nodded her head in reply unable to form a reply to him, telling him that she missed those times ever since her mother passed away.

"You look just like your mother, Mina." He replied smiling kindly at her, earning a surprised look from her.

"Do you know that before your mother died, she asked me to marry someone who possesses the same beauty as her and that I promised her before she breathed her last. For years I have been looking for that woman who is in the same league as her, but to naught." He told Rin; pausing for a while, she nodded her head, waiting for him to continue with his tale.

"Now I have found her." He informed her, smiling at the same time.

"Who is the lady going to be my mother, Father?" Rin managed to ask as the suspense is nearly killing her.

"You are the one, as you possess the same beauty as your mother, Rin." He replied, causing her to gasp in horror.

"So Rin, will you accept my offer of marriage and be my queen?" King Yukio asked her, offering her his hand. Rin slapped his hand away from her.

"No, this is not right. I refused!" Rin cried as she tried to absorb all the information. 'This is not happening, even though I wanted father to dote me, but not this way.'

"Rin, I know this is hard for you, but please consider that the kingdom is in need of a male heir, and you possess the same beauty as your mother. So I'm fulfilling both my obligations and you will also be fulfilling your duty for the country." Yukio informed her.

"No! I will not do it!" she yelled, temporarily discarding all the etiquette training that she had learnt.

Upon hearing her refusal, King Yukio's face contorted with anger.

"You ungrateful brat, do what your king commanded to!" he snarled.

"Never! You are my father and I will not marry you!" she shouted. The next thing she knew was, her father whom she was wishing to acknowledge and dote on her, beating her up like a rag doll.

"I give you a week to consider you ungrateful wrench, if you don't, then I will do by force." He shouted after he gave her a hard swift kick on the ribs, King Yukio then left the room leaving her sobbing on the ground.